Maintenance Of Family Relationships Research Articles

Promoção da saúde do jovem agricultor familiar: perspectiva para um envelhecimento saudável

Objetivo: compreender como jovens agricultores cuidam da saúde, diante das vulnerabilidades no contexto de trabalho, desvelando suas perspectivas para o envelhecimento saudável. Método: pesquisa exploratória, descritiva, qualitativa, realizada com dez jovens de um município do Rio Grande do Sul, realizada no segundo semestre de 2018. A coleta dos dados ocorreu por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas. A análise dos dados foi baseada na análise de conteúdo. Resultados: os jovens promovem sua saúde cuidando da alimentação, ingestão hídrica, adaptações climáticas, lazer e manutenção das relações familiares. Para o envelhecimento saudável, os participantes da pesquisa buscam inserção de tecnologias para aliviar esforço físico e adesão de práticas preventivas, demonstrando preocupações hereditárias e de comorbidades. Conclusão: a promoção da saúde é realizada a partir dos cuidados com a alimentação, ingesta hídrica, adaptações ao clima e das boas relações familiares. Os exercícios físicos não são praticados devido às atividades laborais demandarem intenso esforço físico.

Visiones y experiencias familiares y profesionales en la prevención de la institucionalización de las personas con discapacidad intelectual en La Rioja

Un recurso para el cuidado y atención de las personas con discapacidad intelectual es la institucionalización, la cual incluye a las personas con necesidades de apoyo en una institución dirigida a atender y dar respuestas a sus necesidades. Un elemento para prevenir esta tendencia y buscar otras alternativas es conocer las visiones de los propios familiares y de los profesionales que trabajan directamente con el colectivo. El presente artículo ofrece estos discursos, a través de la realización de dos Grupos de Discusión. Entre las conclusiones principales, se deben realizar prácticas que favorezcan el mantenimiento las relaciones familiares y que faciliten el establecimiento de relaciones sociales con otras personas sin discapacidad en entornos inclusivos. Las personas residentes deben ejercer su autodeterminación en el día a día de la vivienda, tomando decisiones acerca de sus asuntos cotidianos.

Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration by Matthew J. Cressler

Reviewed by: Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration by Matthew J. Cressler Kim R. Harris (bio) Matthew J. Cressler, Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration (New York: New York University Press, 2017). 288 pages. Five members of the Black Panther Party and fifty others identified as "Concerned Black Catholics and Whites Concerned about the Black Community" occupied the narthex of St. James Church, Chicago, for a first "Black Unity Mass" on January 5, 1969. Members of the Chicago Police Department's "Red Squad" tactical unit observed the protest, taking notes on what they dubbed a "prayin." During the same hour, "regular" church goers attended Mass in the nave of St. James, undoubtedly hearing the prayers and freedom songs ringing out from the demonstration. Ironically, the protestors' General Intercessions, controversial in their time, have a contemporary ring. Their prayers for Black pride, unity, faith and in honor of a Black Baptist minister could appropriately be offered in 2018, for one of the many Catholic liturgies in celebration of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. Similarly, the fact of present-day Black Catholic celebrations in parishes and cathedrals, accompanied by piano, drums, electric bass, interpretive dance and diocesan-wide gospel choirs, was made possible, in part, by the confrontations, prayers, determination, and cultural evangelization of Black Catholic Chicagoans. Historic and present-day liturgical comparisons and the detailed descriptions of ecclesial conflicts in Authentically Black and Truly Catholic, underscore author Matthew J. Cressler's thesis. He contends that undergirded by official changes in the Catholic Church's liturgical practice and engagement [End Page 123] with the "modern world" after the Second Vatican Council, the intersection of Black Catholics in the United States and Black Power in the late 1960s and 1970s ignited a revolution in the expression of Black Catholic identity and in the community's worship style. In particular, Cressler attributes both local and national influence among Black Catholics, as well as in the wider United States Catholic Church, to the courage and "missionary" zeal for ecclesial self-determination and cultural relevance of Black Catholics in Chicago. Cressler begins by documenting the exponential increase in the numbers of Chicago's Black Catholics from 1940 to 1975. Most were converted to what they came to believe to be the "One True Church," universal and above the racial color line. White religious, women and men of orders such as the Society of the Divine Word and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People, self-described "missionaries," dedicated themselves strategically and systematically to the conversion of newly arrived African-Americans of the "Great Migration." Cressler illuminates his research with converts' personal testimony gathered from journal entries, interviews (many conducted by himself), letters, and other archival materials. Cressler offers a complexity of reasons for the African-American conversions. He contends that not only the prospect of greater educational opportunities, but also the experience of "quiet" and "dignified" liturgies, the inspiration and maintenance of family relationships, and the chance to "be somebody" all impacted conversion decisions. Cressler highlights the so-called "Chicago Plan" of mandatory family religious education and Mass attendance for all who sent their children to Catholic schools, as a foundation for many conversion choices. The author's analysis contains little comparison between the Chicago Black Catholic mid-twentieth century conversion experience with that of African-American Chicagoans who chose other "high church" Christian denominations, also featuring "quiet" or "dignified" liturgies. He makes strong connections, however, between the converts' embrace of new devotional traditions, their chosen separation from former associations, and alternative participation in contemporaneous "religio-racial movements," including the Nation of Islam, the Moorish Science Temple of America, and the Commandment Keepers Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation of the Living God. Cressler provides a riveting telling of the struggles for Black Catholic self-determination between priest-activists such as George Clements and Rollins Lambert, along with Concerned Black Catholics, the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party, the Afro-American Patrolman's League and Chicago's Archbishop Cardinal John P. Cody. He also includes accounts of [End Page 124] intra-group leadership and...

Social Adaptation of Traditional Fishing Women in Helping the Family Economic Sustainability in Binuangen Banten

The role of women nowadays has been a regular work out of home to help her husband's work in order to increase family income. Likewise, the fishermen's community wives participate in supporting their husbands' activities as fishermen and eventually they play a double role, both as housewives as well as taking care of the family's life needs. The objective of this research is to know the role of fisherman women in the distribution of marine products and the pattern of adaptation of women fishermen in a double role of distribution of the catch. This research uses qualitative approach. Field data collection is done through participative observation, in-depth interviews and documentation. The results show that women who work in dual roles are due to the lives they face internally with uncertain sea conditions, while having shared responsibility to meet the needs of the children and their families. The pattern of adaptation of Binuangen fishermen in terms of distribution of catch is actually due to the lack of husband's income if it depends only on the catch and is marketed through a third party. The condition of the work, actually has been going on for generations, so in doing these activities are not too difficult to adapt. Patterns of adaptation of family relationship maintenance continue to run and perform its function as a housewife. Multiple role activities are performed only at certain times only distribution activities conducted in the morning and afternoon, based on the arrival of fishermen. Fishermen go to sea in the morning and evening until the evening, distribution activities conducted in the morning and afternoon until late afternoon.

Associations Between Incarcerated Fathers’ Cumulative Childhood Risk and Contact With Their Children

Incarcerated fathers often experience early life risk factors that cumulate over time and are compounded by the negative repercussions of imprisonment. These dynamics may contribute to the intergenerational transmission of risk and help explain the persistent link between paternal incarceration and poor child outcomes. Contact between incarcerated fathers and their children can benefit them both, but there is limited research on the factors that affect father–child contact. Using data from the 2004 Survey of Inmates in State Correctional Facilities and a sample of fathers with at least one minor child ( N = 5,809), the authors found that incarcerated fathers who experienced more childhood risk factors had less frequent contact with their children. A variety of inmate characteristics were also significant predictors of father–child contact. Parenting interventions could address incarcerated fathers’ childhood risk experiences, which likely undermine the development and maintenance of family relationships, to help them develop prosocial skills.

An Exploration of Families Use of Information and Communications Technology: The Case of Korea and the United States

Abstract As information and communications technology (ICT) becomes increasingly integrated into the daily lives of people around the world, it is important to know how the technology is influencing the behaviors of individuals and families. This study looked at the ecology of families as it is related to ICT and the changes to processes that occur as ICT devices and services are integrated into the family. A survey of 1084 families was conducted. Five hundred of the families were from the United States and 584 families were from Korea. Significant differences were found in the use of ICT by Korean and American families although the source of this difference was not clearly identified in this study. Three clusters of families were identified based on their use of devices and services. These were labeled as; ‘The Tech Savvy’, ‘The Wireless Users’, ‘The In-betweeners’, ‘The Wired’, and ‘The Just Mobile’. ‘The Tech Savvy’ used the greatest variety of ICT technologies and ‘The Wired’ used the fewest. Other clusters fell in the middle with families seemingly using the devices which met their particular needs. Two factors related to ICT integration into the family were identified. These were related to family intimacy and family relationship maintenance. The family cluster identified as ‘Tech Savvy’ made significantly greater use of ICT in these relationships and ‘The Wired’ made the least use of ICT in these areas. The other clusters tended to be between the two ends and tended not to be significantly different from each other in their use of ICT. Finally, models for ICT use by families showed that demographics, nation of origin, types of devices and services used, and attitude and interest in ICT all had a significant impact.

E-migrant Women in Catalonia: Mobile Phone Use and Maintenance of Family Relationships

The rapid dissemination of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in contemporary societies has given rise to a new technological, geographical, and social (TGS) space that defines the e-migrant. This analytical perspective allows us to address the relationship between mobile phone use and the maintenance of family relationships from a distance. In this article, we focus on the transnational communication practices of three distinct groups of migrant women in Catalonia: Ecuadorian, Moroccan, and Romanian. The results show that the three groups of women tend to use mobile phone mainly for (transnational) family communications. Mobile phone use allows migrant women to move into a new TGS space where family relationships are significantly redefined in technological and geographical terms, but far less in social terms. Their self or socially perceived traditional family roles perpetuate, but in a different way, as distance transforms familial patterns of interaction

A határmentiség és a turizmus sajátos összefüggései Kárpátalja magyarlakta területein

A határ menti területek sajátos kapcsolatrendszerét számos kutatás taglalta a korábbi években. Az esetek többségében kiderült, hogy határszakasztól függően minden egyes esetben meglehetősen egyedi kapcsolatrendszerről beszélhetünk. Az egyediség jellemzi Magyarország keleti területeinek és az Ukrajna részét képező Kárpátaljának kapcsolatát is, hiszen két meglehetősen eltérő rendszerben fejlődő régió találkozik itt, aminek specifikumát az is fokozza, hogy Kárpátalja határ menti területein nagyszámú magyar ajkú lakos él. A közös határszakasz átlépésének indítékai közül sajátos módon emelkedik ki a VFR-turizmus és az eltérő gazdasági hatások által létrehozott bevásárlóturizmus. Az alábbi tanulmány a szóban forgó határ menti területek utazásokkal, idegenforgalommal összefüggő specifikumait tárja fel.

Love as a Hidden Gender Resource in Chinese Immigrant Women’s Entrepreneurship

Although there has been an increased research interest in recognizing entrepreneurship as an individual strategy, most literature disregards the interplays of human agency and social structure to entrepreneurship. Despite some recognition of emotion in making economic decisions among entrepreneurial discourses on human agency, aspects of emotional capital in explaining motivation to entrepreneurship has been overlooked. The application of the notion of love as an individual strategy for entering business is still unprecedented. To fill these gaps, we aim to bring “love” as a form of emotional capital to the centre of analysis by relating a number of “love stories” that illustrate the motivation for entrepreneurship in a group of 125 Chinese immigrant women in Sydney, Australia, and Richmond, Canada. Using these women’s own accounts of their experiences, this paper attempts to demonstrate that emotion is embedded in economic behaviour when love is used as a resource to enter entrepreneurship. In addition, we intend to explore the dynamics of motivation by intersecting love with the women’s biographical factors, connecting gender, race, ethnicity, class, immigration, and opportunity structures.BR How do Chinese immigrant women in our studies mobilize love as a form of emotional capital to enter entrepreneurship? First, we recognize that the love relation is the underpinning of family relations, which are based on normative giving. Second, we recognize that these women have taken patriarchy as natural, seeing the maintenance of family relationships and solidarity as wives and mothers overriding their own self-interests, to the extent of self-sacrifice for the good of the family. Failing to do so would result in self-blame, guilt, and shame. We therefore postulate that women are motivated by love as a gender resource that is grounded in culture to enter entrepreneurship for the purposes of marriage and family maintenance and economic survival. Further, we suggest that the mobilization of this form of emotional capital is a rational choice, given the adverse situations these immigrant women and their families face as they struggle against structural barriers and scarce opportunities resulting from immigration.BR Love as a gender resource for entering business can be manifested in different ways. Some women were driven into entrepreneurship out of “self-sacrifice” in terms of “giving” for the love of their husbands. Some did so to “give face” or “save face” for their husbands while others did so through contributing their “labour of love.” Others sacrificed their entrepreneurial ambition to “give time” to care for their husband and children. To these women, the business project is a project of love.BR The motivation for entry into entrepreneurship is a complex phenomenon as seen from the experience of this group of immigrant women. By allowing the delineation of the intersections of self, marriage and family, class, race/ethnicity, immigration and settlement process, labour market experience, and opportunity structures, this study opens up new space for future research to help fill the gaps and expand the horizon in our knowledge claims on entrepreneurship.

Who now reads Parsons and Bales?: Casting a critical eye on the “gendered styles of caregiving” literature

Our concern in this article is with a claim that is either explicit or implicit in much of the gerontological literature on caregiving, namely, that male caregiving is managerial and instrumental while female caregiving is intimately connected with the maintenance of family relationships. We argue that his claim can be seen as a fossilized remnant of a theoretical tradition (the Parsons/Bales argument relating to an instrumental/expressive division of labor within the nuclear family) that has increasingly gone out of fashion in other areas of sociological research. We then borrow from feminist theories relating to the ideology of intensive mothering to show why claims relating to “gendered styles of care” are problematic. Finally, we use qualitative data from interviews with the wives of caregiving husbands to suggest that the emphasis on “relationship” often found in interviews with female caregivers has less to do with the kinkeeper role typically assigned to women than with the performance of gender.

Religious Participation in Early Adulthood: Age and Family Life Cycle Effects on Church Membership

We attempt to integrate, elaborate, and test competing theories of why religious participation increases with age during young adulthood. We reconceptualize age and family formation as interacting causes of religious participation rather than competing explanations of it. We expand the concept offamily formation to include divorce, cohabitation, and dissolution of cohabitational relationships. We distinguish attitudes toward the family from family formation behavior. We analyze data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, which traces church membership to age 32. Our results show that the effect of children on church membership varies with the combination of the children's and parent's ages. We find separate effects of family formation behavior and attitudes toward the family. Cohabitation, divorce, and dissolution of cohabitational unions all affect membership probability, but these effects vary with age and are often differentfor men and women. n most religious traditions practiced in the United States, religious values and participation in religious organizations are deeply intertwined with values and attitudes that encourage marriage and parenthood. Most formal religious dogmas promote the establishment and maintenance of family relationships. Organized religions offer institutionalized moral support for love, intimacy, and childbearing in the context of religiously sanctioned marriage (D'Antonio 1983, 1985;